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Fall 2012 Anime |OT| Meet the new world, same as the old world

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Ultimadrago

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lol @ Apocalypse Zero being your only 1 score. Do you still have flashbacks?

Flashbacks, nightmares, hallucinations...

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Simply thinking about it crumbles my spirit from the inside.
 

Regulus Tera

Romanes Eunt Domus
Eh..I'm not sure. I'm kind of an anime noob at this point. As I mentioned, I'm REALLY enjoying From the New World. I've watched a ton of Sailor Moon over the last year or so. And even though watching through School Days was pretty arduous, I'm not opposed to watching slice-of-life/dramas, even in a school setting. So... I guess it's hard to say. I'm pretty open-minded.

No incest shows, though. That's where I have a line drawn. Also, no shows about bugs that want to bite the bottoms of children.
You should watch Space Brothers if you are looking at the crunchyroll catalog. Be warned that it is still ongoing, however.

The original Eureka Seven is also available. Watch it.
Wow, there's even someone cosplaying as
the Viking magical girl from episode 12
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Pictures needed.
 

kayos90

Tragic victim of fan death
Eh..I'm not sure. I'm kind of an anime noob at this point. As I mentioned, I'm REALLY enjoying From the New World. I've watched a ton of Sailor Moon over the last year or so. And even though watching through School Days was pretty arduous, I'm not opposed to watching slice-of-life/dramas, even in a school setting. So... I guess it's hard to say. I'm pretty open-minded.

No incest shows, though. That's where I have a line drawn. Also, no shows about bugs that want to bite the bottoms of children.

Trigun
Angel Beats!
Darker than Black
Full Metal Panic Fumoffu!
Ouran High School Host Club
Clannad and Clannad After Story
 

Syrinx

Member
Trigun
Angel Beats!
Darker than Black
Full Metal Panic Fumoffu!
Ouran High School Host Club
Clannad and Clannad After Story

Hmm. You're the second to recommend Angel Beats. The description on Crunchyroll didn't blow me away, but I guess it's not really fair to judge anything based on that.

Darker Than Black is one that caught my eye. Might check that out.

Edit: I think I'll also at least check out the first episode of "Ah! My Goddess!", if only to see a guy summon a goddess while ordering a pizza.
 
Hmm. You're the second to recommend Angel Beats. The description on Crunchyroll didn't blow me away, but I guess it's not really fair to judge anything based on that.

Darker Than Black is one that caught my eye. Might check that out.

Edit: I think I'll also at least check out the first episode of "Ah! My Goddess!", if only to see a guy summon a goddess while ordering a pizza.

Don't watch Angel Beats unless you are looking for ugly looking melodrama.
 

duckroll

Member
Errr, yeah, I have absolutely no idea where to start with NeraGaku. it's... an odd, odd movie. The tone was pretty much the exact opposite of what anyone seemed to be expecting - it's kind of moe-moe, it's incredibly comedic. It's almost like it's channelling KyoAni at times, having a very similar sense of humour...

It's also an incredibly confusing mess, narratively. It makes not a lick of sense by the time you get to the end, and doesn't really deliver much in the way of, well, schools in peril, or psychic school wars, inspite of its title. BluWacky, who at least has the benefit of having seen the 1981 live action version, thinks that it's expecting you to have read the original short story in order to piece together what's actually going on. For those of us who haven't, we get a comedy trip to the beach in the middle of a typhoon right when you'd be expecting the climatic battle...

Yeah, it's odd. Xenoglossia-level subversive, really. It's just kind of peculiar that a movie which claims to be about communication fails to actually communicate what it going on in a coherent fashion. Might be the point, I guess. I think the people who left before the end of the credits may have a completely different impression of the ending, too.

It is a fairly pretty movie, though, short some slightly-too-frequently used CGI ocean shots (Enoshima again, by the way). Mostly decent character animation, if exaggerated in terms of the lack of gravity at times. Lots of lens flair. Lots of cherry blossoms, too.

I'm pretty sure the movie is going to pick up a fan base purely for the heroines, though...

I'm not paying for WiFi in this cheap hotel, so detailed thoughts on NeraGaku and Blood-C will have to wait until tomorrow. I'm not as down on NeraGaku as most of the people leaving the screening were (I really rather thought most of it was very good indeed), but it is decidedly not the film I was expecting and I am determined to establish if there is a reason for this.

Blood-C was pretty much exactly what I thought it would be, on the other hand!

NeraGaku was an excellent comedy movie, it's just a pretty ill-explained science fiction one. I'm pretty sure that equipped with all the necessary information, and given enough opportunities to iterate through the proceedings, it'd make sense as well, but I do kind of wonder if it's expecting too much out of the audience (or at least too much out of the foreign one, anyway).

Wow, that sounds kinda... really... I dunno. I expected a sort of semi-serious scifi character driven drama/thriller maybe similar to The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, with possibly more power use and heavy digital effects for stylistic purposes. So you guys are saying it's actually some sort of comedy show? Not sure if I'm even interested anymore... :(

So disappointing!
 

kayos90

Tragic victim of fan death
Hmm. You're the second to recommend Angel Beats. The description on Crunchyroll didn't blow me away, but I guess it's not really fair to judge anything based on that.

Darker Than Black is one that caught my eye. Might check that out.

Edit: I think I'll also at least check out the first episode of "Ah! My Goddess!", if only to see a guy summon a goddess while ordering a pizza.

Watch Fumoffu first. It'll go by real quick and you'll get a great laugh.
 

kayos90

Tragic victim of fan death
Wait, Kayos liking Angel Beats too beside Guilty Crown and SAO? Damn.

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You should stop being tsun-tsun to DTL then buddy!

Uh.... when did I ever say I liked Guilty Crown? Also, Angel Beats isn't terrible. It's not excellent either. People need to stop exaggerating how horrible Angel Beats over minor problems because it creates some bullshit around here. As a whole Angel Beats isn't terrible. It's just average.
 

Narag

Member
Galactic Cyclone Bryger 11

Earth! It's been a while. Isaac's past? Well that was faster than I expected. Doublecross in this ep was ace and I'm liking more and more how its just a bunch of crime syndicates causing the issues in the solar system. Isaac was pretty poetic with his revenge too.
 

mAcOdIn

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and that silly Wing Commander film that treated space combat as if it submarine combat. lol
Hey now, speaking of submarines what about that Black Lagoon episode? This is a perfect time to reenforce how shitty thee writing is in Black Lagoon. In the first season they go over the story of a fictional nazi submarine and her crew that was sunk and the crew died because of a lack of oxygen. I've already forgotten the why but either the generator was broken or that model actually had to resurface to get air and either way they weren't getting more, so they were running out of air. Anyways, cut to 50 years or so later and Revy and Rock have to go recover something from the sub and what do you know, the submarine now has air again! I don't understand how the author or the writers of the series, whoever made the story could make such a blatant mistake like that. They spent the previous 5 or 10 minutes chronicling what the crew would do knowing they were all about to die without air just to magically have air there 5 minutes later in the episode.

Damn Black Lagoon sucks.
 

Narag

Member
Hmm. You're the second to recommend Angel Beats. The description on Crunchyroll didn't blow me away, but I guess it's not really fair to judge anything based on that.

I liked the comedic parts of it as well as the dub. The melodrama is bottom of the barrel stuff though.
 

Syrinx

Member
How does Ghost in the Shell progress? Is it the movie, then anime, then Stand Alone Complex? Haven't seen any of it (yes, I said it. Shower me with pitchforks).

Also, just realized Hulu has a shit-ton of anime. Don't know if I feel like signing up for another service though (I realize Hulu is free, but then there's Hulu-plus and all) Have to look up their policy on watching stuff for free.
 
In new anime news, TV Anime of Manga 'Karneval' Due in Apr 2013.

For those not up to date on every manga out there:

Nai searches for someone important to him, with only an abandoned bracelet as a clue. Gareki steals and pick-pockets to get by from day to day. The two meet in a strange mansion where they are set-up, and soon become wanted criminals by military security operatives. When Nai and Gareki find themselves desperate in a hopeless predicament, they encounter none other than the country's most powerful defense organization—"Circus"!!
 
Am I too late to the party? http://myanimelist.net/profile/cjkeats (Please note, I only got started again late summer)

I found Angel Beats enjoyable enough until it just kinda looked at it's watch and bailed like it was hitting on someone else's girlfriend and he was coming this way.

Well it says unknown compatibility for me but we share 13 anime. You have an average score of 8.6 for them and I got a score of 7.9 .We haven't really seen much in common :(
 

duckroll

Member
How does Ghost in the Shell progress? Is it the movie, then anime, then Stand Alone Complex? Haven't seen any of it (yes, I said it. Shower me with pitchforks).

Also, just realized Hulu has a shit-ton of anime. Don't know if I feel like signing up for another service though (I realize Hulu is free, but then there's Hulu-plus and all) Have to look up their policy on watching stuff for free.

The 2 seasons of SAC and then the movie (Solid State Society) belong in the SAC continuity.

GitS -> Innocence is the movie continuity.

The manga is its own continuity.

They're all sort of independent from each other, and don't follow the same continuity.
 

madp

The Light of El Cantare
Also, just realized Hulu has a shit-ton of anime. Don't know if I feel like signing up for another service though (I realize Hulu is free, but then there's Hulu-plus and all) Have to look up their policy on watching stuff for free.

Some of Hulu's stuff is free, some of it redirects you to outside paid streaming services afaik. They still have a fair amount of good stuff, although a lot of it you can also get from Funimation's site.
 
Uh.... when did I ever say I liked Guilty Crown? Also, Angel Beats isn't terrible. It's not excellent either. People need to stop exaggerating how horrible Angel Beats over minor problems because it creates some bullshit around here. As a whole Angel Beats isn't terrible. It's just average.

I second this ... angel beat is nothing special , but isn't "bad" to the point you can't enjoy it ..an average anime that would be forgotten in a couple of years at most ( unless they release a sequel )
 

Syrinx

Member
The 2 seasons of SAC and then the movie (Solid State Society) belong in the SAC continuity.

GitS -> Innocence is the movie continuity.

The manga is its own continuity.

They're all sort of independent from each other, and don't follow the same continuity.

So, I could feasibly start watching SAC and not suffer from not watching the movie? (did a search for the movie on Netflix and didn't find it. Did they take it down?)

Should also point out now that I've watched the first 11 episodes of Gunslinger Girl on Netflix. Don't know what this board feels about it, but I've generally found it enjoyable.
 

firehawk12

Subete no aware
From The New World

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I guess we're sort of at that point where Vietnam can be used for art now. Although, everyone is already doing September 11th porn in their video games and movies, so why not.

Still, what a god awful infodump. Why do SyFy writers feel the need to have their "Architect" moment? Why not just leave that stuff in some writer's bible that you can sell after you die (and have some director turn into a trilogy of movies)?
That also begs the question that I asked at the beginning - what was the point of all the flashbacks that start each episode
if you were just going to vomit up all that stuff in the fourth episode anyway? Yeesh.

I think I'm out for a while. Maybe I'll just read the Random Curiosity screen grabs/summaries until the next big thing happens.
 
What's with all these percentages going around???

Anyways, I finally got around to watching Psycho-Pass and I must say it started at full steam to me. I like how it got right down to the point, but I'm still not sold on it yet.
 

wonzo

Banned
So, I could feasibly start watching SAC and not suffer from not watching the movie? (did a search for the movie on Netflix and didn't find it. Did they take it down?)

Watching SAC requires no prior experience with anything GitS related but the Oshii movie's are pretty much the best thing out of the entire franchise.
 

Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
From The New World

Still, what a god awful infodump. Why do SyFy writers feel the need to have their "Architect" moment? Why not just leave that stuff in some writer's bible that you can sell after you die (and have some director turn into a trilogy of movies)?
I felt like this was a good time to infodump, much better than Psycho-Pass, Zetsuen and F/Z's first episodes of dumping.
That also begs the question that I asked at the beginning - what was the point of all the flashbacks that start each episode
if you were just going to vomit up all that stuff in the fourth episode anyway? Yeesh.
Hook.
 

Beats

Member
So, I could feasibly start watching SAC and not suffer from not watching the movie? (did a search for the movie on Netflix and didn't find it. Did they take it down?)

Should also point out now that I've watched the first 11 episodes of Gunslinger Girl on Netflix. Don't know what this board feels about it, but I've generally found it enjoyable.

If you do watch the first movie make sure it's the original and not the 2.0 version.
 

trejo

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So, I could feasibly start watching SAC and not suffer from not watching the movie? (did a search for the movie on Netflix and didn't find it. Did they take it down?)

Yes you could but I would still suggest you track down the movie anyway as it's pretty much required viewing.

Should also point out now that I've watched the first 11 episodes of Gunslinger Girl on Netflix. Don't know what this board feels about it, but I've generally found it enjoyable.

Gunslinger Girl is pretty good. However, don't bother with the second season since it was handled by a different studio and is, by most accounts, a very inferior product in comparison.
 

duckroll

Member
So, I could feasibly start watching SAC and not suffer from not watching the movie? (did a search for the movie on Netflix and didn't find it. Did they take it down?)

Should also point out now that I've watched the first 11 episodes of Gunslinger Girl on Netflix. Don't know what this board feels about it, but I've generally found it enjoyable.

Yeah you can watch SAC on its own. It has nothing to do with the movies at all, other than sharing the same source material (the characters and setting from the manga).
 
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